The file-sharing world has had more than its fair share of unbelievable stories in recent years and many of them are linked to The Pirate Bay, the world's most resilient BitTorrent site. It's never really certain where it will next appear - a nuclear bunker, a military fort in the middle of the sea, or floating in the sky in unmanned drones. But there is something that one can be sure of - the site is powered by a special kind of crazy that has captured the imagination of millions.

Writing on a Sunday can be an ‘interesting’ affair. Not only is there no news, typing and alcohol-induced dehydration and depression often make things even more tricky.

Then late last weekend and out of nowhere came a gift. The Pirate Bay team put up a blog post declaring that the site would be hosted in the sky inside flying drones.

As Ernesto quite rightly pointed out to me, this kind of thing makes a perfect Sunday article. If i’m honest all I could think at the time was that the TPB boys had just returned home after a weekend-long hallucinogen binge and hadn’t had the good sense to keep off the keyboard.

“Being this connected to the ground doesn’t feel appropriate to us anymore,” a TPB insider wearing a glazed expression, bandana and a smiley-face t-shirt told TorrentFreak.

For those who follow the adventures of The Bay, these crazy stories are nothing new. During its life The Pirate Bay has been hosted in a Cold War nuclear bunker and was even destined to move beyond the law and onto a North Sea platform known as Sealand. If Peter Sunde hadn’t spent all the donated money on trees, Pirate Bay drones might have never been needed.

Nevertheless, despite it painting a fairly unlikely picture the drone story spread faster than a well-seeded torrent and was retold around the web dozens and dozens of times. Of course there were the usual Doubting Thomas writers and skeptical readers, but interestingly there were plenty of people discussing how it might be achieved. Several big publications even quoted experts who said that the idea is technically possible.

Yet again The Pirate Bay had done what it is very good at – firing people’s imaginations. Last week millions of people daydreamed about the possibility of tiny flying servers, each hovering tantalizingly just out of the copyright bogeyman’s reach. Those same people want to believe that The Pirate Bay will create its own laws inside its own floating nation. They positively love the idea of a defiant server fighting a digital war encased deep inside a nuclear bunker.

And the reason people are ready to suspend their disbelief and are willing to give these crazy ideas a chance is because The Pirate Bay continually does amazing things, things that really shouldn’t be possible.

The Pirate Bay’s founders have been sued into oblivion and ordered to pay millions yet not a penny has or will be paid. The theory is that soon they will go to jail, but given the site’s Houdini-like abilities one has to wonder if that will ever happen.

The site itself is absolutely huge and has remained so for nearly a decade. It was physically and completely dismantled only to reappear phoenix-like just a few days later. Everyone on the Internet can find the site yet mysteriously no-one knows where it is to shut it down. Even if it was found it would clone itself immediately and reappear tomorrow. It’s the beast that can’t be killed, the stuff of legends.

What The Pirate Bay does every single day is the impossible, and whether you love them or loathe them there can be few who don’t quietly admire them. Despite overwhelming odds they are still here, doing what they promised to do a decade ago and there just aren’t that many people around who are that reliable.

As a symbol of digital defiance, The Pirate Bay has no equal and its operators are perhaps the most inspirational maniacs the Internet has ever seen. So when they talk about hovering drones or pocket-sized personal WiFi proxies for all TPB users (oh, you haven’t heard about that one yet?) not everyone will believe them.

But the rebellious side in all of us will be intrigued nonetheless and will come to the conclusion that however unlikely the proposition, if anyone can pull it off, the inspirational maniacs at The Pirate Bay can. And even if only secretly, most people will be cheering them on.